Book Quote by Ben Lerner

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

— Cornelia Funke

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

— Oscar Wilde

I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making…

— Julia Glass

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

— Rita Dove

No one is as real to me as people in the novel. It grows like a living thing. When I realize they do not…

— Mavis Gallant

I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.

— Henry David Thoreau

I'm very interested in people, so if a character happens to be real, there's that much more to look at.

— Toby Jones

All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.

— Kate Morton

My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book. They become so real to me, I talk…

— Judy Blume

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

— Alan Dean Foster

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important…

— Nina Bawden